I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.